Father and Son

2 hrs. 51 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Miroslav Grishin

Narrator Olga Pletneva

Description

The third collection by Miroslav Grishin is small, but it contains works of different lengths and genres: stories, parables, and essays. For all their differences, one thing unites them: in each of them sounds the theme of choice—whether to do or not to do; who you are, who you’re with, what you are like? Every one of us faces our choice every day, sometimes every hour—but not everyone can understand it, put it on paper, and share it with others.

Miroslav Grishin managed to do it.

Contents:

Part 1. Whom to Serve
01_01_Whom to Serve
01_02_Afterword
01_03_The Morzyanka
01_04_The Overcoat on the Train
01_05_How to Learn to Live in Love
01_06_Night Highway
01_07_The Rational and the Irrational Maiden
01_08_And Nobody Will Ever Take Away the Joys from You
01_09_After Dreams
Part 2. The Wisdom of This World
02_01_What Is Fascism
02_02_Amsterdam. The Sun of Truth
02_03_Trip for Easter
02_04_An Attempt at Artistic Analysis of the film “The Island”
Part 3. Your Own Line in Life
03_01_Your Own Line in Life
03_02_The Sister Valentina’s Second Birth
03_03_The Son, the Royal Monastery
03_04_The Smartest in the Class
03_05_The Meaning of Orthodox Faith
03_06_Father and Son

About the author:

Miroslav Anatolyevich Grishin. Writer. Born in Moscow on August 6, 1959. After studying in middle school No. 5 in Lyubertsy, he worked as an auto mechanic at the AZLK plant. Served his compulsory military service in the Soviet Army. Over the course of his life, he tried many professions. He graduated from the Leningrad Nautical School (LMU MMF) and the Marine State Academy named after Admiral S.O. Makarov in Leningrad. He worked on nuclear icebreakers in the Arctic, sailed around the world on sea vessels, and under contract worked in the capital of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. In 1999 he graduated from the Russian State Academy of Public Administration (RAGS) in the Department of State Regulation of the Economy. He made pilgrimages to holy places of Rus’, and worked in monasteries. He worshipped Orthodox shrines of Mount Athos, Greece, Italy, Jerusalem, and other places of world Orthodoxy.

For Miroslav Grishin, the closest creative form is the short story. In his works, the writer does not overload the plot line with descriptions of details. In some style, his stories resemble biblical parables; it is important to note that all the works begin with an epigraph from the Bible. Readers perceive Miroslav Anatolyevich as the narrator of a short, instructive tale.